Dell Inspiron 9200 Notebook Motherboard - F7372 specs?

[xaephod]

Hey folks,

Just picked up an old Dell Inspiron 9200 with the above mentioned mobo. I can't really find any info about it online. Wondering if anyone knows the specs..max cpu I can put in there? Obviously, it has to work with the dell bios unless there's another bios I can flash it with. I'm not really an expert with mobile motherboards, but I want to tinker. I think even with the 2Ghz Intel Pentium M 755 , and an AMD 9700 I can get this thing to run Linux or Windows 7 pretty well. I don't know if you can pop something better into this thing. What other CPUs will work with this mobo? Even a desktop cpu if it will work and not overheat.

Thanks for the help.

 

[Wolfshadw]

From what I can tell, it appears the only better processor that would work in that mobile motherboard would be the Intel Pentium M 765 (2.1 GHz)

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-Wolf sends

Edit: I would check with Dell to find out what the Max TDP is for that system. It may be it can accept up to 35 watts, but for that system, they only used a 21 watt TDP processor.

 

[xaephod]

Doubt its worth the effort and cost for 10Mhz.

Thanks!

 

[xaephod]

Turns out the cpu is a Intel® Pentium® M Processor 740 (2M Cache, 1.73 GHz, 533 MHz FSB)

So its already a 533mhz FSB. So can I drop any 533FSB chip that fits that slot?